Assessing Espoused Goals in Private Family Firms Using Content Analysis

Family Business Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 298-317

  McKenny, Aaron F ^a   Short, Jeremy C ^a   Zachary, Miles A ^b   Payne, G Tyge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

content analysis; identity; narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858629855     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486511420422     Document Type: Article

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